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Create a company profileMercury Fund is a seed-stage venture capital firm that makes equity investments in compelling and novel software and science-based startup opportunities. Mercury partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs to build globally competitive businesses, focusing on technology innovation originating in the U.S. Midcontinent. Our firm has a particular interest in startups associated with seed accelerators, incubators and universities. We frequently invest prior to the formation of a business plan or complete management team. Since inception in 2005, Mercury has become one of the most active seed-stage venture firms in the Midcontinent, becoming a "go-to" fund for entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of idea generation, company formation, and market execution.
Newchip is a global startup focused software and services suite that provides world-changing early-stage startups with the tools, skills, mentorship, and network necessary to successfully raise, build, and scale their businesses to exit. We're a veteran founding team with decades of experience, numerous acquisitions under our belts, and we've helped fund over $150M into companies. As a remote accelerator, we've had startups from over 35+ countries and 200+ cities worldwide go through our program.
CTAN is actively seeking great startups to fund. Providing more than just money, CTAN brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. Let us help you turn your vision into a sustainable and successful business. Not limited to the technology industry, our members invest in exciting companies in a wide range of industries including biotech, consumer products, Internet, IT, life sciences, media, software, clean tech, and others. Our members have diverse backgrounds in almost every industry. Many of our members are entrepreneurs and have experience in running start-ups • Increase the chance of funding success by having access to a large group of angel investors • Access to industry-specific business expertise to help grow your business. • Gain potential long-term business advisors.
We invest in early stage companies in the enterprise technology, healthcare, and internet/consumer application sectors. We plan to deploy 70% of our Fund in companies headquartered in Sacramento and Northern California. The remainder of the fund will be concentrated in Austin, as well as other Texas markets.
Mission Capital was founded in 2001 by a group of local funders, nonprofit leaders and community volunteers as a place where Central Texas nonprofits could go for resources and guidance. The organization’s history has evolved from a nonprofit resource into a community resource and partner focused on solving complex social issues.
Sputnik ATX is a venture accelerator in Austin, TX. We combine capital (100k funding) with training and experience to prepare seed-stage businesses for future rounds of funding and move the sales needle for startups.
Austin Ventures (“AV”) has worked with talented entrepreneurs to build valuable companies for over 30 years. With $3.9 billion of capital raised, AV is the most active venture capital firm in Texas and one of the most established in the nation. AV invests in early stage and middle market companies, and its strategy is to partner with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build industry-leading companies predominantly in Texas.
Draper Startup House is disrupting the hospitality model by creating true value through building a larger business ecosystem. Our mission is to empower people across the globe who have unique and groundbreaking ideas, providing them with resources to dedicate themselves to their vision and accelerate their work.
Founded in 2013, Tritium Partners is a private equity firm focused on buyouts of growth companies in the lower middle market. For over a decade, the founders of Tritium have deployed over $700 million of equity capital while partnering with talented founders and executives to build market-leading companies. Tritium’s investment approach emphasizes acquiring majority positions in profitable companies and creating long-term value through internal growth initiatives and acquisitions, with a particular focus on three core sectors: Internet and information services, supply chain and logistics, financial and business services.
The next crop of billion-dollar companies face significant barriers. We want to find them, fund them, and unleash their transformative value.
Next Step Capital Partners™ invests in early stage, growing companies in exchange for a share of future revenue. Angel investors, venture capitalists and banks often require an equity share, collateralization, or personal guarantees. We eliminate these requirements by offering an investment in exchange for a percentage of future revenue. As a result, your management team and Next Step Capital Partners™ are fully aligned toward creation of sustainable topline growth. Our innovative, revenue-sharing approach eliminates the complexities of securing funds and significantly reduces the time required to receive them. Whether launching a new product, expanding sales staff, or building inventory, we offer the right investment at the right time to fund your mission-critical objectives. We understand the challenge of positioning your company for long-term success. We’ve been there – as entrepreneurs and executives for companies ranging from explosive start-ups to global corporations. Our experience and passion for turning small business into big business are the key drivers of Next Step Capital Partners™ innovative approach to investing.
Next Coast Ventures is a leading venture capital firm founded in 2016 in Austin, Texas with more than $265M in assets under management across three funds. We invest in “emerging, “next coast” companies at the critical stage of development to launch them into hyper-growth. Leveraging extensive experience as both operators and investors, Next Coast Ventures has been constructed around the central thesis of being “built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.” We aim to be an incredibly supportive partner to get in the weeds and help entrepreneurs with the challenges of running their business, because...we have been there ourselves. We built an array of world-class platform resources for our portfolio companies to help them address a broad range of operational challenges. We call these Company Building Playbooks, or “CBP”s. These playbooks are enhanced by the Next Coast Ventures Expert Network, which consists of 150+ top operators in Austin and similar “next coast” markets who are willing to provide advice and mentorship to our portfolio companies, as well as our Head of Platform who is dedicated to making sure our founders have everything they need to make their venture successful.
Thinktiv is a value-creation consulting firm. As trusted partners to leading startup founders, established businesses, and their boards, we transform organizations to maximize their value. We are software-natives driven by a fierce get-shit-done entrepreneurial spirit. We’re an elite team of business veterans and technology pioneers. With a fully integrated understanding of market and customer behavior, we find value where others don’t. We tackle challenges others won’t. And we deliver results others can’t. We’re hands-in alongside you: enhancing organizational capacity in real-time with state-of-the-art thinking and world-class delivery. We’ll help you go farther, faster. We architect businesses: Our Business-Value Architecture positions companies to achieve premium valuations coupled with the needed strategies to grow revenue and protect enterprise value. Our Value-Creation Solutions are investment-driven and evolved from decades of real-world operating wisdom. At the heart of our operation is Thinktiv’s Value-Creation Philosophy. It identifies and de-risks the obstacles that threaten a company’s Enterprise Value and provides insights to build future Enterprise Value growth. We specialize in Mid-market transformations. From pre-transaction diligence to divestiture, we support executive teams and their investors throughout the investment lifecycle to enhance business value. We also selectively invest alongside our partner firms in proven entrepreneurs. For over a decade and in thirty-plus deals, Thinktiv has served as the value generation engine for invention-stage companies. We are Thinktiv. The architects of next.